ftp transfer status?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 14 May 2006, taharka wrote:

> How do,
>
> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 12:49 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 May 2006, Devon Harding wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone?
>>>
>>> On 5/12/06, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Besides hash, is there any way to see the progress of cli ftp transfers?
>>
>> Use a better ftp client?
>
> You sure bout that? I believe man ftp says the "-v" operator yields
> progress of ftp transfers ;-)

It says:

-v     Verbose option forces ftp to show all responses from the  remote
               server, as well as report on data transfer statistics.

I don't know if that means progress bars or post-transfer reports, and I 
don't have an FTP server handy to play with.

>
>> Try lftp, which is part of FC, or ncftp, which is in Extras.  Both are CLI
>> clients, and both are much more featureful than plain ftp.  "Batch mode"
>> clients include wget and curl.  gftp is one GUI client.  You can also FTP
>> with Firefox or Mozilla, and there are interesting ways to transfer files
>> in the various file managers (Nautilus in GNOME and whatever it is in
>> KDE) that I haven't really played with much.  All of them will show
>> progress bars.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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